Trump Wants Senate Nuclear Option Used To Repeal Obamacare

Americans are still scratching their heads over the Senate floor stunt Senator John McCain (R) pulled when he sided with Democrats and vote “no” to repealing the embattled Obamacare law.

President Trump, who campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare during the 2016 election cycle, decided to tear into the failed efforts by Senate Republicans to repeal President Obama’s legacy legislation.

Hours before McCain all-but betrayed Americans by voting against the repeal, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who campaigned twice against Obamacare, was convinced that the repeal would take place. Rubio posted on this on his Facebook page that Americans were on a “path to repealing” the law.

Senator Rubio vowed to continue efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, telling the Tampa Bay Times he ran for the Senate twice “on the promise of repealing and replacing Obamacare,” and that he intended to “keep that promise.”

“The insurance markets are crumbling – the average premiums have more than doubled and earlier this year yet another rate increase has been proposed for 2018. If we do not to act, things will only get worse because a failing ObamaCare will remain in place.

“Many people, across Florida and the country, expect their elected leaders to keep their commitments and do the work they were sent to Washington to do. While last evening’s vote was disappointing, I remain committed to passing a health care bill that leaves Floridians better off than they are under the disastrous Obamacare.”-Senator Marco Rubio to the Tampa Bay Times.

Now President Trump is calling out the Republican-led Senate’s failure to repeal Obamacare, drawing a line in the sand to legislators, pressing them to press the nuclear option.